World Congress of Agroforestry 2009
International Satoyama Initiative
Yoshihiro NATORI
Senior Fellow
United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies
26 August 2009
Nairobi, Kenya
Background
• To protect wilderness area alone is not enough for the biodiversity
conservation at global scale.
• Important to realize sustainable use of land and natural resource
consistent with biodiversity conservation at global scale. Focus on
the traditional man-nature relationship in satoyama landscapes as
a sustainable rural societies in harmony with nature.
• These positive relationships between human and nature can be
found in various areas in the world.
• Satoyama-like landscape may also contribute to the improvement
of livelihoods of people especially in developing countries as well as
the resolving of global issues such as food security, poverty and
climate change.
Satoyama Initiative
Japan proposes the Satoyama Initiative to disseminate the concept of
living in harmony with nature as in Satoyama landscape to the global community.
G8 Environment Ministers Meeting 2008(Kobe city Japan)
Kobe Call for Action for Biodiversity
CBD-COP9（Bonn, Germanｙ）
The kickoff meeting was held in March 2009 in
Tokyo
The concept of satoyama like landscape
(tentative)
• Basically it is a landscape created in a long term interrelationship
between nature and human activities through agriculture,
forestry, fishery and animal husbandry.
• Often maintained based on traditional knowledge.
• The focus is to conserve and create ways that human utilize and
manage land and natural resources in sustainable manner.
• Include landscape where sustainable natural resource use
approach has been recently brought into.
• Include landscape in suburban area where appropriate humannature relationships are constructed.
Characteristics of Satoyama like landscape
1. Maintenance and formation processes
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Shaped and maintained by humans, who, while leading lives that were
centered on agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishing, exerted an
influence on the local natural environment as a result of a series of land
usage and natural resource utilization and management techniques.
2. Structure and Ecological Processes
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Mosaics of numerous land uses
Functional relationships between each types of land use
arranged in accordance with natural environmental and geographical
conditions
Dynamic land usage (e.g., shifting cultivation, the regular logging of forests)
Vegetation composed of different stages of succession
Utilizing the resilience of nature in an appropriate and positive manner
Compound land usage that imitates the structure of natural ecosystems
Characteristics of Satoyama like landscape
(cont’d)
3. Usage and Management
• The harvesting and management of natural resources is performed by the local
community on a shared basis
• There are rules which prevent the overexploitation of natural resources. (the
time and frequency and quantity)
4. Distribution/ Regional characteristics
• Wide range in types of satoyama-like landscape
– In continental landscape, it is often composed of cultivated fields, rice
paddies, forests, grasslands, water reservoirs, canals and settlements, etc.
– In coastal land area, local communities utilize the natural resources taken
from dry land as well as in water (e.g., fish, sea weed etc.).
– The concept of coexistence harmonious with nature is now influencing
regional planning in suburban area
• Systems and methods of managing and utilizing the land are unique and
depend on the natural and socio-economic conditions of each region.
Characteristics of Satoyama like landscape
(cont’d)
5. Changeability
• Satoyama-like landscape has been changed into forms in
accordance with prevailing socio-economic conditions or
technological development.
6. Biodiversity
• Biodiversity in satoyama-like landscapes should NOT be
valued in comparison with that of pristine ecosystem but it
should be treated as different and unique or one that
strengthens pristine ecosystem.
– Various types of habitats derived from mosaic type and
dynamic land use systems
– Unique biota are sometimes nurtured in satoyama-like
landscapes as seen in Japan as a result of appropriate
human intervention to nature.
– Alternative habitats and buffer-zone-to-wilderness role
Characteristics of Satoyama like landscape
(cont’d)
7. Ecosystem services and 8. Human well-beings
• Production of various types of food and other goods makes livelihood of
local residents more stable.
• Healthy ecosystems as basis of agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal
husbandry will contribute to the stable and improved livelihoods of the local
residents and to steady supply of products to the residents in wider area
including urban areas.
• Biodiversity and/or attractive sceneries will create opportunities for
education and recreation by which enhancement of local economy can be
achieved.
• Contribution to the food security, poverty, energy and climate changerelated issues
• Enhancement of human welfare by improving aspects of health and
assisting in the formation of positive social relationships.
Initiative’s Threefold Vision
The Five Perspectives
Understanding
&Assessment of
the Landscape
Local
Communities’
livelihood
Vision
Stakeholders
participation
Appraising local
traditions and
culture and
adapting them
to modern-day
socioeconomic
conditions
Plans for
optimizing
ecosystem
services
Strategic implementation of the Satoyama Initiative
Threefold vision and
five perspectives
Development of a shared strategy
Agreement on partnership framework
Effective
advancement of
Satoyama
Initiative
Close cooperation with like-minded
initiatives/partnerships
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Works to be done for the Satoyama Initiative
Information gathering
(Case studies: sustainable use of natural resources)
Analyses of gathered information
(Lessons learned, Practical measures, Challenges)
Database development
Establishment of online portal site
→ Information dissemination, Capacity building
Action Plan formulation
Launching of International Partnership
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Framework/Partnership
Preparation for the launch of
the International Satoyama Initiative
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UNU-IAS and MoE has been working together leading up to launch the Initiative at the CBDCOP10
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Preparatory meetings
– 25 July 2009 in Tokyo
Develop conceptual framework
- 1-3 October 2009 in Malaysia
Discuss similarities and differences in satoyama like landscape in Asian region
- January 2010
International meeting
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Through these meetings, concept, vision and perspectives on sustainable use and
management of natural resources in satoyama-type landscapes are to be developed.
Preparation for the launch of
the International Satoyama Initiative (Cont’d)
• Case studies
– Collect and analyze good practices in natural resources utilization and
management in satoyama type landscape from various areas in the
world
– Those practices help developing the vision and perspectives of the
initiative concept
– Lessons will also be shared widely through a unique portal site.
• The Portal site
– will be launched in this fall.
– Good practices
– Documentary films
Time-line of theSatoyama Initiative Preparation
Preparatory Meetings
Relating Meetings
CBD related Meetings
2nd World Congress on Agroforestry
(Nairobi, Aug ‘09)
COP Bureau Meeting
1st Preparatory Meeting
(Expert, Int. org : Tokyo, July ‘09)
2nd Preparatory Meeting
(Asian nation, Expert, Int. org :
2009
KOBE Biodiversity Dialogue
(Kobe, Aug ‘09)
COP-SBSTTA Joint Bureau Meeting
(Nov ‘09)
Submission of Proposal to SCBD (Feb ‘10)
3rd Preparatory Meeting
(Gov., COP & SBSTTA Bureau, Expert,
Int. org : Europe, Jan ‘10)
(Sweden, Sep ’09)
Trondheim Meeting
(Sweden, Feb ‘10)
6ｔｈ COP Bureau Meeting
(March ’10)
2010
Additional Preparatory Meeting？
SBSTTA 14
(May ‘10)
COP10 (Oct. 2010)
Launching of the Partnership
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